Rewriting History
Joseph A. Komonchak January 26, 2009 - 3:32pm
Vatican II
Renewal within Tradition
Edited by Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering
Oxford University Press, $29.95, 488 pp.
This book is intended as an illustration of the fruitfulness of interpreting the Second Vatican Council as an instance of “renewal within tradition.” That phrase is used in contrast to the “hermeneutics of rupture or discontinuity,” which then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger criticized in a December 2002* speech to the Roman curia (the text of which is provided as a kind of preface to the volume). The editors describe the hermeneutics of rupture as overemphasizing what was...
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